Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melaleuca diosmatifolia

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Pink honeymyrtle

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Open forest, in areas subject to flooding. Widespread north of Milton.

Notes

Introduced shrub to 2 m high. Bark rough. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, scattered or alternating up the stems, usually 0.5–1.5 cm long, about 0.5 mm wide, more or less cylindrical, tips with a small abrupt point, surfaces hairless. Flower clusters many-flowered spikes 10–40 mm long. Individual flowers pink, with 5 petals each about 2 mm long. Stamens much longer than the petals. Flowers summer.

Native to Western Australia.

Was Melaleuca erubescens.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~diosmatifolia  (accessed 27 April 2021)